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Good morning! The rain is finally clearing up! Yankees 5, Twins 2! To the best of my knowledge, no state elected officials will plead guilty to a felony today, nor will any gubernatorial candidates launch a three-minute infomercial. Alas, ’twas not the case Thursday, as you can see by these headlines…

Bob McCarthy writes: “If TV viewers across the state anticipated a kinder, gentler, contrite and humbled Paladino on Thursday evening, they came away sorely disappointed. While the Republican candidate offered a subdued persona, none of the fight seems to have left the man who has said he wants to take “a baseball bat” to state government. He blasted his Democratic opponent and again suggested that Cuomo, now divorced, had had an extramarital affair.” (BN)

Albany Mayor Jerry Jennings points a finger about the city’s fiscal situation: “These budgetary forces are not reflective of poor planning on the city’s part but rather irrational and inequitable policies and compensation from other entities — namely New York state,” a new report declares. (TU)

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